Re:Can Linux Ever Become Mainstream?
by ZeroGravitas on Tuesday April 08, 2014 @06:19AM
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I'm just setting up a brand new, top of the line MacBook Pro Retina after a few years away from Mac OS X on Ubuntu.
The clunkiness of installing Firefox, the virtual disk images (this in particular is so unnecessarily techy I'm gobsmacked it's not been solved in my multi-year abscence from the platform) that litter my desktop after a bizarre matroska like series of unwrappings, and the ugliness of some of the apps (e.g. a VPN that looked likea cut'n'shut of Mac OS X and Java) kind of surprised me, which I suppose is a testament to how far desktop Linux has come.
The clunkiness of installing Firefox, the virtual disk images (this in particular is so unnecessarily techy I'm gobsmacked it's not been solved in my multi-year abscence from the platform) that litter my desktop after a bizarre matroska like series of unwrappings, and the ugliness of some of the apps (e.g. a VPN that looked likea cut'n'shut of Mac OS X and Java) kind of surprised me, which I suppose is a testament to how far desktop Linux has come.
I'll be happy to get it back via a VM.